Garment-fitter.



No. 692,510. f Patented Feb. 4, |902.

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GARMENT FITTER.

(Applicatiun led Mar. 20, 1901.'

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No. 692,510. I Patented Feb. 4, |902.

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GARMENT FITTER.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 692,510, dated February4, 1902.

Application filed March 20, 1901. Serial No. 52,006. (No model.)

To all whom, zit may concern:

Be it known thatI, EDWARD P. FoLLETr, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful Device for Laying Out Tailors Patterns, ofwhich the following is a specication.

My invention relates to means for drafting the parts of garments; and itconsists in a device adapted to taking measures and locating all thecardinal points necessary in laying out Waistfitting garments withoutthe use of scales on the device or of tape-lines, as in ordinarypractice, so that the result is a system of great simplicity which maybe easily and quickly understood by any person of ordinary ability, thesaine being described hereinafter and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in Which- Figures l, 2, and 3 are respectively front, back,and left-hand side elevations showing the device as it appears iitted tothe body of aperson illustrated in partial outline, the several parts ofthe device being set in the proper relative position one to the other,so that the indicating-slides may be manipulated to show the place ofeach of the cardinal points from Which the contour of the parts of agarment is drawn. Fig. eis a plan of the device as it appears separatefrom the body and in the straightened position for indicating thecardinal points in laying out a pattern for aWaistiitting garment, Whoseform is shown by the broken lines, which lines are formed by anotherinstrument, Which is the subject of a separate application for patent.

Similar characters indicate like -parts throughout the several views.

The belt or main body portion of the device comprises, in this instance,three parts, of

which A and B are usually made of thin resilient material and arepivotally connected by means of a clamp-screw at C close to the arm-scyeposition When the belt is around the body, so that they may be set oneto the other at any desired angle and held in the set position. At oneend of part B is secured a liexible strap D, in Which is a series ofperforations E, adapted to be engaged by a button F at the outer end ofpartA when the device is secured around the body.

At G and H are clasps, each fitted to slide longitudinally on theirrespective belt portions A and B, and mounted to slide in these claspsat an angle to the belt portions are vertically-disposed thin strips Iand J, and each is provided with a hook K or L at the top end, Fig. 3.

At M, N, O, and P are clasps iitted to slide longitudinally on the belt,and pivotally secured to these clasps on screw-threaded studpins are theends of four thin flexible arms Q, R, S, and T, which may be set andheld at any angle to the parts of the belt by means of thumb-nuts U,mounted on the screw-threaded pivotal pins.

One or more arms in addition to Q, R, S, and T may be mounted on claspsslidingly fitted to the belt, if necessary, in laying out garmentshaving a greater number of cardinal points than the pattern for oneindicated by the broken lines in Fig. 4.

At V is a clasp rmly attached to the portion B ot the belt, and in thisclasp is mounted to slide at an angle to the belt a short strip W, andat X is a clasp secured to and adapted to slide longitudinally on thebelt portion B and is fitted to slidingly hold a short strip Ysubstantially parallel with strip W.

At Z is a clasp iittedto slide longitudinall5T on the part A of the beltand to slidingly hold a thin strip 5,Which projects downwardly, and atthe lower end ot the latter is pivotally secured a crossstrip 6,adjustably held in anyV desired angular position relative to the otherparts of the device by means of abind ing-screw 7.

The front and back thin strips I and J are tted, in this instance, withslides 8 and 9, usually of rubber, and on the arms Q, R, S, and T areslides l0, ll, 12, and 13, all of these slides being adapted to be movedlongitudinally on the strips or arms to indicate the several cardinalpoints which serve as guides for laying out the pattern for aWaist-fitting garment. There is a piece 14 fitted to slide on arm Q,which piece is provided with a small hole l5, through which the point ofa pencil may be inserted for the purposehereinafter fully explained.

In setting the parts of the device to indicate the cardinal points, thebelt is placed around the body and secured by engaging the button F inone of the holes E of strap D,

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the portion E of the belt being close under the arm, and the portion Aat an angle to B, so as to be disposed at practically a right angle tothe surface of the chest, as indicated in Fig. 3, When the portions Aand B of the belt are held in angular position by means of thescrew-clamp at the pivotal center C close to the arm-scye position, inwhich position the vertical piece W is held close up to the fore part ofthe arm and the clasp X is slid so as to carry the strip Y close up tothe rear side of the arm of the person being measured. The clasp G isnow slid on the belt to the position in which front strip I is disposedwith its left-hand edge practically in the center of width of the waist,and is slid vertically so that the hook K at the top end thereof isengaged with a cord around the neck or with an ordinary pin secured inthe clothing of the person being measured. Clasp II at the back may nowbe slid so as to bring the backu strip with its right-hand edge to thecenter of width of theback, and then the strip is slid vertically andhooked onto the cord around the neck or to a pin, as before described,for the front strip. Clasp Z is slid to an intermediate position on beltportion A between clasps G and V and clasps M, N, O, and P a)re setapproximately in the intermediate positions, respectively, betweenclaspsG and Z, Z and V, V and X, and X and H, as indicated in Fig. 4.

Usually in locating the cardinal points the arm Q is swung around so asto pass over the left shoulder and across the upper end of back strip J.Then indicator-slide 10 is moved along arm Q until the outer end of theslide is even with the right-hand corner of the upper end of strip J,when the arm is clamped in position by means of nutU. Arms R and I arenow swung up and around the shoulder to the point thereof, when slides11 and 13 are moved until their outer ends are even with this point, asshown in Figs. 2 and 3, when they are secured by means of the nuts Lowerarm S, which hangs downwardly, is now secured by the nut U in about theposition shown in Fig. 4, and the slide 12 is moved so that its lowerend is at the desired waist-line at the side, and slides 8 and 9 aremoved on front and back strips I and J to the position adapted toindicate the front and back waist-lines.

The lower edge of the strip 6 of the T- shaped device, consisting of thestrips 5 and 6, is designed to indicate, as desired, the top terminationof the front darts, which are indicated by the broken lines 16 and 17,and which latter aswell as the other darts shown are laid out by aseparate device specially designed for the purpose and used incombination with the device hereinbefore described.

In laying out patterns for waist-fitting gar ments the device is removedfrom the body and placed in the straightened-out condition on a sheet ofpaper resting upon a fiat surface, when indicating-points are made witha pencil on the paper at the left-hand corner of the top at K of frontstrip I and at the righthand corner of the top L of back strip J. Alsoindicating-point marks are made at the outer end of each of the slides 8and 9 of strips I and J to show Waist-line terminals at the center offront and back lines. Indieating-points are marked on the paper at theouter ends of slides 11, 13, and 12,v respectively, for the point of theshoulder and Waistband line. The back of the neck-point is indicated atthe top right-hand corner of the back strip J, and the point indicatingthe termination of the shoulder-seam at the back of the neck is found bymoving the slide 14; on arm Q until it is one-eighth of the neckmeasure, for a waist garment, from the outer end of slide 10, when apencil is inserted through hole 15 and a segmental broken line 16 isdrawn on the pattermpaper by swinging arm Q laterally, and on thisbroken line is located the neck-termination point of the shoulder-seamof the front of the garment by measuring from point 1l to the segmentalbroken line a distance equal to the distance from shoulder-point 13 ofthe back of the garment to the'point 17, which latter point is found bythe separate device hereinbefore mentioned as being the subject ofanother application for patent.

I claim as my invention- 1. In a device for laying out tailors patterns,a belt adapted to be secured around the body close under the arms, saidbelt compris- IOC ing in part two main portions pivotally conterns, abelt adapted to be secured around thebody close under the arms, a seriesof clasps mounted on the belt and movable longitudinally thereon, armshaving one end pivotally secured to a number of the clasps and auotherseries of arms slidingly fitted to the remaining Aclasps intermediatethe length of the arms, whereby the end portions thereof project freelyabove and below the belt, and

indicating-slides on the free end portions thereof, for the purposestated.

EDWARD 1. FOLLETI. Witnesses:

OSCAR SNELL, JOHN CARTER.

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